I am so exhausted. I hope this will be at least somewhat coherant.
Today I had my first LING2021 lecture. It's Second Language Acquisition, and it appears to be quite dull. Basically with linguistics or at least with this course, I find I just slot "music" in where it would rather be "language" and then I find it more interesting. See, the point at which you know a language is less interesting to me than what constitutes when you can play a specific instrument. Because SLA (in adults) and music are both high cognitive processes (apparently, I'm not psycologist/whatever), I figure there must be overlaps in how you acquire the new skills and knowledge. Yeah.
I was talking to this Arabic guy, and he said he wanted to learn how to play piano (as in playing a tune that came into his head, or whatever) but didn't want to have to learn "all the little names" (as he called it) of the music. I found this rather interesting, because in my experience people are more likely to teach you a foreign language without making you literate in that language, but people will be incredibly less likely to teach you music without insisting that you are also music-literate. This is a gigantic can of worms, but it's kind of disapointing to think that although music is in its purest state just sound, that we are so distracted by the names and other junk. Ugh I just called it junk. I love theory. I must also point out that I do believe you need a formal grounding in music and at least to be able to understand how the pitches work together in scales and such. But this is probably because of the values uni places on learning which I have quite readily adopted.
IGNORE ME, I AM CLEARLY NOT ALL THERE.
Jack's relationship with Gwen kinda makes me uneasy. I do understand that it is possible that he could love Gwen and Ianto, and that possibly in his own time mooning over Gwen while dancing with Ianto could be seen as acceptable but here in this time, it just makes me uneasy. But anyway.
Lolz at Ianto for the wedding fairy quip and coming from a line of Master Tailors. Ugh I hope they don't kill him off or whatever. It is remarkable how very annoying some of the other characters are in comparison to him.
Sleep time. Had enough rambling for one night.